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In early 1864, Robert E. Lee began experimenting with tactical innovations for the upcoming spring campaign. To this end, he ordered the organization of sharpshooter battalions. William S. Dunlop was the commander of the sharpshooter battalion formed from the 1st, 12th, 13th, and 14th South Carolina, and Orr’s Rifles. In Lee’s Sharpshooters he chronicles the training processes, the ordnance tests and the marksmanship exercises the soldiers went through to become skilled and confident skirmishers. Robert E. Lee’s decision didn’t turn the tide of the war, but it did give rise to the specialized soldier whose “ intelligence, marksmanship and unfaltering courage” was remarkable. Contributions from other battalions such as those of Lt. Robert F. Ward from Davis’s Mississippi brigade provide first hand accounts of the sharpshooters’ part in the battles of Wilderness and Spotsylvania.
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- PublisherMorningside
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0890290644
- ISBN 13 9780890290644
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages499
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Lee's Sharpshooters; Or, the Forefront of Battle
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. New hardcover book, no jacket as issued. 499 pp. Index. Beautiful brown cloth hardcover with gilt spine title and flags on front cover. This facsimile of the 1899 edition was issued by the noted Civil War publisher, Morningside House. Professional bookseller for 20 years. Orders shipped daily in cardboard bookfolds. Seller Inventory # 59917
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